Comments on: Point of Sale systems, and their back-ends

By: jim winstead

jim winstead — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:21:10 +0000

checkout, a very nice point-of-sale system for mac os x, uses postgresql.

By: MySQL in a small town cafe | Colin Charles Agenda

MySQL in a small town cafe | Colin Charles Agenda — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:42:44 +0000

[...] This was a small town coffee shop, using a cash register, powered by the mighty Sakila. Similar to the chain of restaurants, Old Town White Coffee. [...]

By: David Mackley

David Mackley — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:57:20 +0000

It uses an open source database, and the central servers are on open source platforms linux apache etc. The connect software is written in java bit not available open source… yet.

By: anonimus

anonimus — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:16:19 +0000

@David: Is the software open source or just the database? Their website doesn’t say much about open source…

By: David Mackley

David Mackley — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:09:27 +0000

Here is an open source point of sale system. This one uses the open source firebird database which originated as a borland product. It is very stable and very fast, this system uses it on every till and has a real time backup to a hosted firebird database on a linux server. Keeps the cost right down yet is very fast and reliable. Open source is definitely the way forward for retail software. :)

By: Pin

Pin — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:37:37 +0000

Too bad, the one in Sunway Mas do not have any power socket

By: jim winstead

jim winstead — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:21:46 +0000

checkout, a very nice point-of-sale system for mac os x, uses postgresql.